Hair curling device



March 5, 1957 E, KlNG 2,783,763

Hui: c'unpmc DEVICE Filed April 23, '1954 l8 fi 28 v INVENTOR- [TTH f. K 7

ATTORNEY a ll 2,783,763 HAIR CURLING DEVICE Etta E. King, Lenrninster, Mass.

Application April 23, 1954-, Serial No. 425,214 2 Claims. ci. 132::34

This invention relates to a new and improved hair waving and curling device and constitutes an improvement on the construction shown in Patent No. 2,611,378 dated September 23, 1952. v

The principal object of the present invention resides in the provision of a device of the class described which is simpler in construction while retaining all the advantages of the patented structure and is therefore less expensive to manufacture, easier to assemble, and is free and easy in the rotation, opening, and closing motions of the hair waver finger part and holding part; the provision at a device as above described including an elongated tapered spiral conformation finger or the like which is provided with an integral reduced neck at the larger end thereof, said neck terminating in an integral enlarged head, in combination with a hair hold-down device which is rotatarily pivoted to the finger by means of a pair of inturned ears located in the space under the head in the region of the reduced neck, this construction providing for pivoting of the finger part relative to the hair holddown part and also for rotary motion of the parts relative to each other for quick and easy wrapping of the hair on the finger and thereafter clamping the hair in the wrapped position, and including means for holding the parts in the above stated relationship including a collar having a radial slot therein and a coinciding diametrical slot, said slots appearing at opposite side faces of the collar and the first-named slot receiving the reduced neck on the finger part so that the collar is in axial alignment on the finger part in the region of the neck between the head and the main body portion of the finger part, and the diametrical slot receiving the inturned ears on the hair hold-down device and thus preventing dis-assembly of the parts and holding the same in the operative relationship above described, thus forming a complete and practical hair curler of three parts only, all of which are easily made of molded plastic and may be quickly and easily snapped together in the assembled relationship.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. l is a view in side elevation of the new haircurling device showing the same in open position for wrapping the hair on the finger part;

Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the finger part;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the hair hold-down device, looking in the direction of the arrow 3 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on line 44 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged elevational view of the collar;

Fig. 6 is an edge view thereof, looking in the direction of arrow 6 in Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is an edge view from the opposite side, looking in the direction of arrow 7 in Fig. 5;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged exploded view illustrating the action of assembling the finger or portion to the collar and showing the latter as it appears from the opposite face from the showing of Fig. 5;

nite tates Paten F 2,783,763 Patented Mar. 5, 1957 2 Fig; 9 is an enlarged section on line 9-9 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 10 is a section on line 1010 of Fig. 9'. g r

The present invention contemplates the provision of the hair-winding finger part or main body portion 1 0 which is flared from its free end containing a depression 12, to the opposite end thereof and being spirally formed on its surface, the turns of the spiral gradually enlarging from the smaller end towards the larger end to accommodate the strand of hair which is to be wound thereon starting at the small end thereof. The finger part or main body portion 10 is provided at its larger end with an axial, reduced neck 14 and an enlarged head 16 thereon, these parts all being integral and injection molded of commercial plastic. I

. When the hair has been wound on the finger part described, it is held in place by a hair hold-down device generally indicated at 18 also injection moldedof plastic but being relatively thin in section. Adjacent one end thereof, an integral projection 20 snaps into the depression 12 when the hair hold-down device 18 isswung over in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1 to overlie the finger 10 upon which the hair has been wound and hold the same:

The device 18 is provided with upstanding rear portions 22 at the upper end of each of which is an inturned car 24. These ears extend inwardly toward each other and are adapted to lie in the area of the reduced neck 14, thus connecting the parts together in rotative and swinging relationship, it being seen in Fig. 1 that the finger 10 can rotate on its own axis while the hand of the operator holds the hair hold-down device in fixed relation so that it may be used as a handle.

In order to hold the parts in this relationship, there is provided a collar illustrated in detail in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive. This collar is a fiat disc-like member having a thickness substantially equal to the length of the neck 14. This disc is indicated generally at 26 and it is provided at one face thereof with a diametrically arranged slot 28 which might be referred to as a cross slot. This forms a pair of opposite and substantially equal lands 30. At its opposite face, the collar is provided with a radial slot 32 terminating in a central enlargement 34 which receives the neck 14 of the finger member 10, and the same is lightly held therein by the resilient action of the plastic material, the witdh of slot 32 being very slightly less than the diameter of neck 14, which snugly fits the enlargement 34. The head 16 abuts or is substantially close to the surfaces of the lands 30 and the. larger end of the tapered finger 10 can fit within a circumferential rim or flange 36 at the opposite side of the collar.

The three parts are of course molded separately and in order to assemble the device, the collar is first snapped on to the neck 14 and then the thus easily assembled collar and finger part 10 are snapped onto the hair retaining portion 18 by inserting one ear 24 at one end of cross slot 28 and then distorting the thin material of hair hold-down device 18 and snapping the other car 24 into the other end of said collar cross slot. In this condition, the parts are held assembled against any possibility of accidental escape and the device will appear as in Fig. 1 ready for use.

Having thus described my invention and the advantages thereof, I do not wish to be limited to the details herein disclosed, otherwise than as set forth in the claims, but what I claim is:

1. A hair waving and curling device comprising an elongated body, a reduced neck at one end thereof, a head on the neck spaced from the body, a hair hold-down device for swinging and rotary motion relative to the body, a pair of inwardly directed ears on the hold-down device, and a collar joining said body and hold-down device, said collar comprising a generally disc-like member of resilient molded plastic material and having a diametrical cross slot in one face thereof, a radial slot in the other face, said radial slot extending to the center of the collar and terminating in an enlargement, said slots coinciding in part, the neck being slidable in the radial slot tothe enlargement and having a diameter to snap thereinto to be held thereby, the ears being located one at each end of the cross slot, the head being located at one side of the collar and extending to overlap both ears, the body being located at the other side of the collar.

2. A hair waving and curling device comprising an elongated plastic body, an integral reduced neck at one end thereof, an integral head on the neck spaced from the body, a hair hold-down device for swinging and rotary motion relative to the body, a pair of inwardly directed ears on the hold-down device, said ears being spaced apart a slightly greater distance than the diameter of the neck, and a collar joining said body and hold down device, said collar comprising a generally disc-like member of resilient molded plastic material and having a diametrical cross slot in one face thereof, a radial slot in the other face having an enlargement centrally of the collar, said slots coinciding in part, the neck being slidable in the radial slot to the enlargement and having a diameter to snap thereinto to be held at the enlargement, the ears being located one at each end of the cross slot, the head being located at one side of the collar and extending to overlap both ears, the body being located at the other side of the collar, said hold-down device being resilient plastic and said ears being springy in a direction away from each other to snap into the cross slot ends and hold the parts assembled.

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